Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.